Name: Free Local Poetry Reading Live at Tattered Cover Colfax
Start: 2026-02-15T16:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-02-15T18:00:00-07:00
Location: Tattered Cover Colfax

Free Local Poetry Reading Live at Tattered Cover Colfax

Join us for an inspiring poetry reading with three local poets: Nick Forster, Kathy Winograd, and Bruce Ducker
About this Event

Join us for an inspiring poetry reading with three local poets: Nick Forster, Kathy Winograd, and Bruce Ducker on Sunday, February 15th at 4:00 PM at our Colfax location!

We will have limited books for guests to purchase in store!

ABOUT THE POETS
Bruce Ducker has over 100 stories and poems in the nation’s leading literary magazines, including work that has appeared in The New Republic; the Yale, Southern, Sewanee, Missouri, Shenandoah, Literary, and Hudson Reviews; the Quarterly; the New York Quarterly; Ascent; Commonweal; the PEN/America Journal; and Poetry Magazine. He is the prize-winning author of eight novels and a book of short fiction; and in 2024 the Kingston University (U.K.) Press published his first collection of poems. His work has won the Colorado Book Award (Lead Us not into Penn Station) and the Macallan Story Prize, and has been nominated or short-listed for the Thurber Award for American Humor (Dizzying Heights), the American Library Association Best Book Award (Penn Station) and the Pulitzer (Marital Assets). Ducker is also an instrument rated pilot and a jazz pianist. He divides his time between Denver and the Roaring Fork Valley.

Nick Forster is widely known for his 40 plus years in the seminal Bluegrass band , and his role as Founder, Producer and Host of the internationally syndicated environmental and musical radio program, . Nick is a creative jack of all trades who has made it his personal mission to bring people together through music and ideas.

Kathryn Winograd is a Colorado poet, essayist, and photographer. Her books include Air Into Breath, an alternate for the Yale Series for Younger Poets and a Colorado Book Award winner. Flying Beneath the Dog Star: Poems from a Pandemic was a semifinalist for the Finishing Line Press 2020 Open Chapbook contest. Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children received a Bronze Medal in Essay for the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards.